A. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 4:00PM

Speaker 1

Desk
Cap
Vase

Speaker 2

Theater
Hotel
Strawberry

Speaker 3

Wings
Pharmacist
Hen

Speaker 4

Guitar
Bag
Onion

Speaker 5

Parrot
Bread
Sister

Speaker 6

Phone
Dolphin
Whale

Speaker 7

Panda
Drum
Foot

Round 2 - 5:45PM

Speaker 1

Victory
Inflation
Peace

Speaker 2

Love
Warmth
Slavery

Speaker 3

integrity
Fiction
Disquiet

Speaker 4

Pleasure
Determination
Service

Speaker 5

Courage
Annoyance
Movement

Speaker 6

Dedication
Surprise
Contentment

Speaker 7

humility
Freedom
excitement

Round 3 - 7:00pm

Speaker 1

You can’t judge a book by its cover.
An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold. --Chinese Proverb
If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Speaker 2

Don't set sail on someone else's star. --African Proverb
The higher the monkey climbs the more he shows his tail.
Restless feet might walk you into a snake pit. --African Proverb

Speaker 3

Misery loves company.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease
It is easy to open a store - the hard part is keeping it open. --Chinese Proverb

Speaker 4

The first to arrive is the first to succeed. --Chinese Proverb
Don’t throw the baby with the bathwater.
It is easy to find a thousand soldiers, but hard to find a good general. --Chinese Proverb

Speaker 5

He who digs a grave for his enemy might as well be digging one for himself. --African Proverb
Disaster comes from the careless talk. --Chinese Proverb
Don’t cross the bridge till you come to it.

Speaker 6

A bad beginning makes a bad ending. --Chinese Proverb
The child of a rat is a rat. --Malagasy proverb
Make the best of a bad bargain.

Speaker 7

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
There is no time like the present.
Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.

Finals - 8:30pm/ASAP

Speaker 1

"Pride is the crutch of the insecure.” --— Unknown
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. --Lewis Carroll
You are either part of the solution or part of the problem. --Eldridge Cleaver

Speaker 2

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can’t feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets. --Marcus Samuelsson
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. --Christopher Morley
I have always drawn strength from being close to home. --Arthur Ashe

Speaker 3

“Time moves differently in hospitals—both slower and faster. The minutes stand still, but the hours evaporate.” --— Tim Kreider
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more. --Michelle Obama
The only thing predictable about life is its unpredictability

Speaker 4

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way. --Seamus Heaney
This is the way. --Mando, The Mandalorian
“The dumber you are, the less aware you are… Most people don’t know. Most people don’t care. Most people don’t care to know." --— Adam Carolla

Speaker 5

At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment. --Benjamin Franklin
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.” --— Napoléon Bonapart
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done. --Marge Piercy

Speaker 6

The road to success is always under construction. --Arnold Palmer
Sometimes you try your hardest, but things don't work out the way you want them to --Lilo & Stitch
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. --Benjamin Franklin

Speaker 7

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. --Marcus Aurelius
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
You got the makings of greatness in you, but you gotta take the helm and chart your own course. Stick to it, no matter the squalls